Are you feeding your hunger?

So, this week I have been preparing for our High School 30 Hour Famine with church.  This has become a tradition to take part in at Christ the King.  The week before (and actually before that) I spend readying Bible Studies, compiling facts, finalizing schedules, preparing worships.  Much of my devotion time is reading and studying scriptures on hunger.

All this has led me to begin to look seriously at what I hunger for.  What do I yearn for and need both physically and spiritually?  We spend everyday feeding ourselves.  We feed ourselves a balanced diet (hopefully).  We try to focus on the food that our body really needs, well, most of the time.  We feed ourselves with knowledge.  We feed ourselves with relationships.

But, what if we are doing it all wrong?  Many times we think about the junk food we put into our bodies.  We think about the McDonald's value meal that is just easier than going home and spending 15 minutes to put something healthy together for dinner.  We make excuses and for the most part easily can turn our eating into something more healthy.  Sure, we give in to temptations and have that bowl of Blue Bell ice cream that we know we shouldn't, but it is more and more being ingrained in our brains the benefits of eating healthy.

Feeding our bodies healthy food is one thing but what about feeding our minds?  I am a TV junkie at times.  I make excuses that I am just relaxing (as I sit in front of the TV rotting my brain).  I am a sucker for shows that are pointless and suck me in to the drama.  Jody laughed at me last night because I had my new books from Amazon sitting by my chair.  Additionally I had my daily devotional books that I had brought home from work to sit in my little "sacred space" at home.  He said, "What? Are you becoming a book worm?"

I have said it several times here recently, I am not much of a reader.  That is changing.  Spending quality time reading and reading to Cade (which we have always done) is so much more beneficial to my life than aimlessly watching television.  Focusing on feeding my mind with things that are not junk is so much healthier.  That is definitely not a bad thing.

But what of other hungers and longings?  People long for love -- they long for deep meaningful close relationships.  People long to have a shoulder to cry on -- someone to show that they are there to care, love and support.  People long for people.  You can always tell when someone has not been around people for awhile.  When you talk to them on the phone, they yearn to just talk.  They talk and talk and talk just to connect with another human voice.

Are you feeding your hunger?